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The year’s best work in children’s television and digital media was singled out and celebrated by the global kids’ entertainment industry at Kidscreen Summit 2017, an event hosted by renowned comedian Darrin Rose and sponsored by the Canada Media Fund.

Determined by two panels of industry judges, awards in the Programming and Creative Talent categories were given to the following entries:

Nina’s World

Programming- Preschool Category:

Best in Class
Nina’s World (Sprout)

Best New Series
Dot. (The Jim Henson Company/CBC/Industrial Brothers)

Best Animated Series
Doc McStuffins (Disney Junior/Brown Bag Films)
and
Sarah & Duck (Karrot Entertainment/CBeebies/BBC Worldwide)

Best Non-Animated or Mixed Series
Sesame Street (Sesame Workshop)

Best One-Off, Special or TV Movie
Peg + Cat (The Fred Rogers Company/9 Story Media Group)

Programming- Kids Category:

Best in Class
Shaun the Sheep: The Farmer’s Llamas (Aardman Animations)

Best New Series
The Deep (DHX Media/A Stark Production)

Best Animated Series
We Bare Bears (Cartoon Network Studios)

Best Non-Animated or Mixed Series
Odd Squad (The Fred Rogers Company/Sinking Ship Entertainment)

Best One-Off, Special or TV Movie
Stick Man (Magic Light Pictures)

Programming- Tweens/Teens Category:

Best in Class
Bob’s Burgers (Bento Box Entertainment/20th Century FOX Television)

Best New Series
Raising Expectations (An Aircraft Pictures Production in association with Dolphin Entertainment)

Best Animated Series
Bob’s Burgers (Bento Box Entertainment/20th Century FOX Television)

Best Non-Animated or Mixed Series
Gortimer Gibbon’s Life on Normal Street (Amazon Studios)

Best One-Off, Special or TV Movie
L.M. Montgomery’s Anne of Green Gables (Breakthrough Entertainment)

Creative Talent Category:

Best Acting
Sol Soon Six (NRK Super)

Best Writing
We Bare Bears (Cartoon Network Studios)

Best Directing
Stick Man (Magic Light Pictures)

Best Animation
Clangers (Coolabi Productions/CBeebies/Smallfilms)

Best Voice Talent
Bob’s Burgers (Bento Box Entertainment/20th Century FOX Television)

Best Music
Stick Man (Magic Light Pictures)

Best Design
Stick Man (Magic Light Pictures)

Clangers

The Kidscreen Awards also includes a category designed to spotlight the best efforts made by broadcasters to forge stronger connections with kids and family audiences around the world. These winners were determined by a Kidscreen readership online vote that took place in December.

Broadcasting Category:

Channel of the Year
Netflix

Best Channel Design
Sprout

Best Programming Block
Sprout (for Sunny Side Up)

Best Channel Website
PBS KIDS

Best On-Air Host or Hosting Team
Sunny Side Up (Sprout)
Carly Ciarrocchi, Tim Kubart, Kaitlin Becker and Emily Borromeo

And rounding out the Kidscreen Awards program were a set of Digital Categories for Preschool (zero to five) and Kids (six and above). The winners for these prizes are as follows:

Digital- Preschool Category:

Best Website
Dinosaur Train (The Jim Henson Company/Sparky Entertainment)

Best Web/App Series
Sesame Street Happy Birthday Songs (Sesame Workshop)

Best Learning App (Smartphone)
Curious World (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)

Best Learning App (Tablet)
Pocoyo Playset: Let’s Move (Early Learning Collaborative/ HITN/Zinkia Entertainment)

Best Game App (Smartphone)
Curious World (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)

Best Game App (Tablet)
PBS Kids Games (PBS Kids)

Best eBook
Colored Dots (Uyoung Interactive Technology Co)

Best Streaming Video Platform
BBC iPlayer Kids (BBC)

Digital- Kids Category:

Cut The Rope: Magic

Best Website
National Geographic Kids (National Geographic Partners)

Best Web/App Series
Secret Life of Boys (Zodiak Kids Studios for CBBC and ABC Australia)

Best Learning App (Smartphone)
Nickelodeon: Code a Character (Nickelodeon Digital)

Best Learning App (Tablet)
La Francomobile (TV5 Québec Canada/Manito Média/Tobo)

Best Game App (Smartphone)
Cut the Rope: Magic (Zeptolab)

Best Game App (Tablet)
Toca Blocks (Toca Boca)

Best eBook
Little Lunch: A Teacher’s Guide (Australian Children’s Television Foundation)

Best Streaming Video Platform
Toca TV (Toca Boca)

Best Tablet
LeapFrog Epic (LeapFrog)

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The Orbit Live Awards encompasses the whole animation and VFX industry of India and recognises the achievement of an entire gambit of artists working in this field. The awards night was held on the third day (4 February, 2017) of the Orbit Live event which was taking place at The Retreat, Mumbai.

The evening was filled with mesmerising performances which included folk dance by a group of girls, hip-hop dance by the famous ‘Fictitious Dance Group’ on whom the movie ABCD2 was inspired from and the International violin girls band – Silver Strings.

Silver Sstrings played tunes of the famous Bollywood songs “Jai Ho” of Slumdog Millionaire and “London Thumakda” of Queen. Following the performances, international guests were felicitated.

A promo of the video series which is going to be directed by Vaibhav More and produced by Arena Animation was showcased. The video series is about the artists and their work, some of which has remained unknown to the public. The promo received a positive response from the audience. The awards night ended with a vote of thanks by Eso Thampi.

Arena Animation students receiving award

The students of Arena Animation were given awards in the following categories:

3D Architectural Visualisation
Nishant, Deepak, Pooja and Rahul

Character Animation Sequence
Garima Sharma

3D Product Packshot
Atit Gond

Film Trailer
Ayushi Agarwal

Character Design
Nilesh Vishwakarma

Mobile Website Design
Aarti Khalatkar

Digital Illustration
Mayank Tomar

Visual Effects Scene
Mehul Patel

Social Media Video
Ashwini Tyagi, Chander Singh Thapa, Manish Kumar and Sahil Chikara

3D Facial Modeling & Rigging
Gagandeep Singh

Make Shorty Animated Short Film Powered by Autodesk SHOTGUN
Swachh Bharat (Jayanagar)

Industry honours were given in the following categories:

Powerhouse Platform
Amazon Prime

Visual Discovery Pioneer
Blippar (Blippar India, MD, Arnav Ghosh)

Outstanding Animated Adaption
Hopmotion for Chhoti Anandi (Hopmotion, founder, Anish Patel)

Hall Of Musical Fame
Coke Studio

Prolific New Age Entertainment Brand
Culture Machine (Culture Machine, founder and CEO, Samir Pitalwala)

Visual Effects Powerhouse
Double Negative (Double Negative India, creative director and general manager, Merzin Tavaria)

Pioneer of Indian Gaming Industry
Dhruva Interactive (Studio art director, Eric Egerup and talent acquisition, Jagadish)

Pride of Indian Animation
Ishan Shukla

Hall of VFX Fame
MPC for The Jungle Book (Moving Picture Company, technology head, Shajy Thomas)

VFX Powered Blockbuster of the Year
Firefly Creative Studio for Pulimurugan (Firefly Creative Studio, co-founder, Sanath Pc)

Outstanding Music App
Saavn

Honored Guru of Indian Animation
Sekhar Mukherjee

Shahenshah of Animated Spoofs
Shudh Desi Ending (Shudh Desi Ending, director, Bonaventure D’Souza)

Innovative Online VFX Channel
Shutter Authority

Family Friendly Ecosystem Catalyst
YouTube (YouTube, Family and Learning, Content Partnership, manager, Akshata Udaiver)

Lionheart of Indian AVCGI
Yunus Bukhari

Unique Content Design
Mint

Outstanding Channel Branding & Packaging
Sony Entertainment Television (Sr. Vapi strategy and research, Amogh Dusad and VP communicaton, Prashant Saxena)

Felicitation of International Guests

Awards for excellence in voice acting were presented to voice-acting legend Chetan Shashital, Meghna Erande who has voiced the character of Daisy in the Hindi dubbed Bob the Builder, Pawan Kalra and Meena Nata. Chetan Shashital sent the crowd in fits of laughter and filled them with awe with his short voice-acting gig on-stage, where he enacted voices of some of the most famous characters including Darth Vader from Hindi dubbed Star Wars, Donald Duck, Mickey Mouse and Goofy. Meghna Erande and Meena Nata too presented some of the most well-known character voices that they’ve dubbed.

International Festival Partner 2017 awards were presented to Damian Perea for Animayo, Spain and Paul Noble and Penny Holton for Animex, UK. The Media and Entertainment Festival Partner 2017 award was given to Films Division of India.

International Short Film awards were given in two categories:

Best Animated Short Film – Professional
My Life I Don’t Want (Spain)
Nyan Kyal Say

Best Animated Short Film – Student
Journey (Australia)
Radheya Jagatheva

Star Talent Awards were presented to Arena Animation students for excellent work in the following categories:

Make Your Own Movie – Pixelation
Malavika MS, Udeshi Keya Bharat, Abinaya B and Persica

3D Photography
Abhishek Varshney, Anjali Singh and Manish Kumar Yadav

CG/Live Action Integration
Shubham Jadav and Rohit Deb

Animated Performance
Geetika K Tirthani and Shubham Bhargava

Character Modelling
Sanjeet Singh Kalsi, Ganesh Sanjay Chauhan and Anirban Das

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Take Note Store, a pens and stationery store in Toronto, has released “Life Story Love Story”, an emotional short film timed to coincide with Valentines Day. The 4-minute short film tells the life-long story of a relationship between two people from the notes they leave each other. This love story is particularly poignant given the dominance of today’s digital communication. Texts, emails, and posts have largely replaced the role that handwritten letters, cards, and notes once served. The retailer which sells specialty pens and stationery from around the world is planning to support the video with promoted posts through the month of February.

A study by Docmail found that one in three adults hasn’t had reason to hand write anything for six months. Many are quick to point out the downside of this change. Author Philip Hensher, in his Wall Street Journal article, ‘The Lost Art of the Handwritten Note,’ argues, “Email and text exchanges won’t be treasured in the way that my teenage letters, scribbled journals and postcards have been for years.”

Jolanta Petrycka, the owner of Take Note, has seen this shift first hand, but doesn’t believe that handwritten letters and notes are a thing of the past. “Most of our day to day communication now is very utilitarian. But still, there’s nothing like receiving a handwritten letter in the mail or a note from someone you love.”

That’s exactly what advertising agency, BBDO Toronto, set out to capture with this piece. “Leaving a note for someone is so much more personal and thoughtful than a text,” says Chris Booth, an associate creative director behind the work. “We wanted to remind people how meaningful such a simple thing can be.”

Take Note Credits

The Take Note campaign was developed at BBDO Toronto by executive creative directors Denise Rossetto and Todd Mackie, associate creative directors Chris Booth and Joel Pylypiw, group account director Rebecca Flame, agency producer Beatrice Bodogh.

Filming was shot by director Chris Booth and Joel Pylypiw via Skin and Bones with director of photography Kris Belchevski and producer Chelsea Strachan.

Post production was produced at Saints Editorial and Alter Ego by online editor David Whiteson and offline editor Brian Williams, and colourist Tricia Hagoriles.

Sound design and music were produced at Imprint Music by Fraser MacDougall and Tim White.

Learn how to displace geometry in this quick tutorial by Nick Campbell.

What will I Learn?

In this video we will explain a couple ways to displace your models. First we will discuss Sub Polygon Displacement, which adds detail at render time. Next, we talk about the Displacement Deformer which distorts your objects live in the view port.

Where can I learn more about Sub Poly Displacement?

I did a extended video covering Sub Poly Displacement back in 2010. You can find it here.